The team explores a potential fifth-century burial site in a cultivated field, uncovering a metal shield boss. One of the male skeletons is gripping a drinking vessel, and there are signs of even older activity, including a Bronze Age barrow. They create a Saxon shield using traditional tools. Conservator Dana Goodburn-Brown analyzes the x-ray images of the shield boss, while Phil and members of Regia Anglorum showcase the shields' combat techniques. They are later joined by bone experts Alice Roberts and Margaret Cox, who discover colorful beads within the skeletal remains.
Show
Time Team
Episode
S11E04
Air Date
Jan 25, 2004
Season 11 Episodes
S11E01
In Search of the Brigittine Abbey - Syon House, London
S11E02
A Roman Bath House and Edwardian Folly - Whitestaunton Manor, Somerset
S11E03
The Crannog in the Loch - Loch Migdale, Scottish Highlands
S11E04
Saxon Burials on the Ridge - South Carlton, Lincolnshire
S11E05
The Roman Fort That Wasn't There - Syndale, Kent
S11E06
An Iron-Age Trading Centre - Green Island, Dorset
S11E07
A Medieval Blast Furnace - The Old Furnace, Oakamoor, Staffordshire
S11E08
Rescuing a Mesolithic Foreshore - Goldcliff, Newport
S11E09
Fertile Soils, Rich Archaeology - Wittenham Clumps, Oxfordshire
S11E10
King Cnut's Manor - Nassington, Northamptonshire
S11E11
Back-Garden Archaeology: Revisiting a Roman Villa - Ipswich, Suffolk
S11E12
The Lost City of Roxburgh - Roxburgh, Scottish Borders
S11E13
Brimming with Remains - Cranborne Chase, Dorset